Iron County register., 1887-10-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


tions at Gweedore bay, in the extreme
| northwestern part of Ireland.
THE special report of Commissioner
Okie in regard to the Emigration Commits
sion at New York City is said to recon-
mend radical change in the methods of
conducting immigration affairs at Castle
Garden. Secretary Fairchild has the mat
ter under consideration and will act upon
it in q few days.
The State Department has no informa-
| tion of the alleged unwillingness of Sir
John Macdonald to serve on the fishery
commission. So far as can be learned it
is the understanding at the department
that Chamberlain, Macdonald and West
| will serve as the British representatives.
A CALL, signed by many leaders of the
various Protestant denominations, has
| been issued for a general conference of all
evangelical churches in the United States,
to be held under the auspices and direc-
| tion of the Evangelical Alliance for the
| United States, in Washington, d. c., De-
| cember Z, 8 and 8.
THE New York State convention of the
| National Reform party, which was to
have been held at Syracuse on the 4th, was
| indefinitely postponed. There was but
one delegate present, Sylvester Douglas,
of Rochester. Edward Evans, the father
of the movement, was unable to be pres
ent on account of his illness at his home
in Tonawanda.
Nova SCOTIA yachtsmen are going to
build yacht to compete for the Ameri-
cas- cup next year.
THE President was royalty received and
entertained at Chicago on the 9th.
Ex-GOvERNoR w. B. WASHBURNE died
suddenly at Springfield, Mass, on the
9th.
THE American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions began it's session at Springfield,
Mass, on the 9th.
GERMAN Socialists give out the state
ment that they have abandoned the old
policy of violence in their efforts for
national or public reforms.
THE American Bankers Association
meets at Pittsburgh, Pa, on Wednesday
and Thursday, October - and 10.
MICHAEL DAvIrr spoke on Irish affairs
before the Knights of Labor general as
semby at Minneapolis, Minn., on the 5th.
THE trustees of the Peabody fund for
assisting education in the South, held
their annual meeting in New York on the
9th.
HERR BARTH, editor of the Berlin Reichs-
freund has been sentenced to three months
imprisonment for ascribing the growth of
the bad tone of parliament to "Prince Bis
marks false and insulting accusations
against the Liberals"
FIRE broke out on the night of the 4th
in the lumber district of Menominee,
Mich, and before it was extinguished,
had burned over 6,OO0, 900 feet of valuable
lumber in the yards and on the docks.
Loss, 500, 600; insurance, $22, 900.
THE report sent from Tangier on the I'd
instant that the Sultan of Morocco was
dead is incorrect. A dispatch from that
place on the 9th said his Majesty was
alive, but that death was momentarily ex-
pected.
NEGOTIATIONS between Italy and France
for treaty of commerce have been with
out result. The demands of Italy were in
admissible. The Rome RefOTDaa argues
that France will be the loser financially in
every way if she refuses the terms of
Italy.
A SENSATION was created in court at
Ennis, Ireland, on the 9th, by the startling
testimony of an informer, who had acted
the part of spy and murderer.
SIG. CRIsPI admits that his recent visit
to Bismarck was for the purpose of com
ing to an understanding by which Russian
aggressions can be checked.
THE London Standard correspondent at
Madrid telegraphs that in an interview
Senior Moret, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
stated that Spain was desirous of main
tanning the status quo in Morocco subject
to non-interference on the part of the
Powers.
A DISPATCH from Cooktown, Australia,
says the German gunboat, Adler, convey
ing King Malietoa, had arrived there and
transferred the King aboard the Alba
tross, which sailed, it is supposed, for
German New Guinea.
THE New York Commercials Bulletins
fire record for September shows an aggre-
gate loss of s., ,937 300 against So 500, 600 in
September, 1886. The total for the first
nine months of the current year is 500, 1885,
500 against $S3, ,40O, 900 for the correspond
ing period Of 1886.
ALFRED JANICKE, aged twenty-five, son
of a wealthy New York jeweler, shot
himself dead ON the night of the 9Th as he
was entering police headquarters in
charge of detectives. He had led dis
sipated life, and finally stole some jewelry
from a man who gave him employment
after he had been cast off by his parents.
His arrest and suicide resulted.
A DECREE has been issued at Berlin
under the Socialist law declaring a minor
state of siege there, apd prohibiting the
sale on the streets Of special editions of
papers.
THE Secretary of State has received
note from the Chilian Minister to the ef
Valparaiso ON the 10th ult. for New York
on q vessel carrying the remains of Gem
eral Judson Fitzpatrick, late United States
Minister to Chill, destined for interment
in New Jersey.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that sawed square pine timber imported
from Canada is dutable at the rate of 81
per 1000 feet, instead Of at the rate of 20
per cent. ad valorem, as assessed by the
collector at Plattsburgh, N. Y.
CARDINAL GIBBONS red hat has arrived
from Rome.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN ]. O'NEILL, of Mis-
souri,, has returned from Europe.
MEXICO is to allow presidents to be ELI
gible for a second term.
ALARM is again felt at the unfavorable
turn in the health of the Crown Prince of
Germany.
THE strike of the Louisville 6 Nashville
brakemen is spreading to the switchmen.
The issue between France and Spain
over their respective policies toward
Morocco is becoming very pronounced,
and may lead to serious compli cations.
EBENEzER SHERMAN, one of the pioneer
residents of Davenport, Ia, died at his
home in that city on the 9Th, of cancer of
the stomach. He was seventy-four years
of age, and possessed considerable valua.
BILE city real estate.
AT Albany, N. Y, on the 9Th, Justice
Ruger granted another stay in the case of
Jacob Sharpe.
A. SELLER, of Cleveland, O., and West.
ern agent for Reeve, Osborn & Co., tea
merchants, New York, was arrested in
Marion, o., on the 9th, and taken to
Cleveland to answer to charge of ad
ministering poison to his wife.